Policing the Smaller Cities

IT may be appropriate to preface this article with a personal point of view respecting the operation of small-city police departments. In that context I accept the term small only as applied to population, geographical boundaries, tax rates, and the cost of municipal operation as related to the number of police. It is my firm opinion that the plan of operation for efficient police service should follow the well-established and time-proved methods that can be applied across the board irrespective of community size. The attack on crime, accidents and traffic congestion, juvenile delinquency, and other important phases of police operation is the same in cities of two million as in towns of 50,000 population. There is simply a difference in the extent and sometimes the degree of application of fundamentals generally accepted. But this point must be stressed: the smaller the community, the more personal the entire operation becomes

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